4) Leave Your Baggage At The Door
It’s a little blunt, but, I think my gets the point across. Everyone has baggage heading into the zombie apocalypse, and, if they don’t, they will, eventually.
The problem is, a lot of people’s actions are clouded by this personal baggage, and can adversely affect how they behave, and how well they get along with other people.
For an example, look at how both Dwight and Sherry’s time under Negan’s thumb has made both of them, with Dwight blindly willing to go along with the Outcasts plan to assassinate Virginia (Even though he knew the risk involved if it failed) just to appease Sherry, and Sherry, so blinded by hate, that she was willing to gun down around a dozen rangers (Alerting Virginia to the Outcasts existence in the process) and get the rest of Morgan’s group in serious trouble, maybe even killed.
You can’t let your baggage cause you to make stupid decisions, because, even more so than in the normal world, a zombie apocalypse has a way of making you pay dearly for such decisions.
You need to really force yourself to push your way through whatever your issues might be, or at least, learn to control them well enough to stop them from causing you to make a decision you’ll wind up regretting.
Now, I’m not naive: This won’t be easy. Issues of this nature rarely are, if they were, they wouldn’t be issues in the first place, but, regardless of whether it’s easy or not, that doesn’t change its need to be done.